Greenwood’s tale is a unique and controversial love story about two damaged people. When we first meet Wavonna Quinn, she is 5, come to stay with her mother’s sister, Aunt Brenda and cousins Amy and Leslie. Her mother is an addict and her father is a dealer. She moves from her Aunt’s home to her Grandma’s, after who’s death she returns to her parents and a new baby brother, Donal.

Love affairs with creatures from black lagoons might be having a moment; Guillermo del Toro's film "The Shape of Water" features a green-scaled research subject paired with a mute lab worker. But before "The Shape of Water" there was MRS. CALIBAN.

February is Black History Month. It is a time to celebrate the contribution African Americans have made to United States history. Follow The Drinking Gourd written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter is an informati

To help make managing your library accounts a little easier, the Westlake Library is introducing a couple of changes.

Automatic renewals: Each day when the library closes, a computer program will check the system for items that were due that day and will attempt to renew them. Each card holder with successful auto-renewals will receive an emailed list of their renewed items along with the new due dates. Starting date: Monday, January 29, 2018.

Ursula K. Le Guin, one of science-fiction and fantasy’s greatest authors, has died at the age of 88.

Together with contemporaries like Philip K. Dick and Samuel R. Delany, Le Guin demonstrated that literate, moving stories could be told within the confines of genre, an important lesson for modern best-selling writers like Neil Gaiman and David Mitchell, who hailed her work.

Hopefully everyone is staying warm. We have a little break, but the temperature is supposed to dip again this weekend. These frigid temperatures don't allow for much time to spend outside. While you are enjoying your time indoors with your children you can read Mama, Do You Love Me? written by Barbara M. Joosse and illustrated by Barbara Lavallee.

Movie awards season is here and in full swing! A look at an awards season calendar is dizzying to say the least! The Film Independent Spirit Awards nominees were announced back in November. In December the Golden Globe Awards, Critics’ Choice Awards and Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards nominations were announced.

As we welcome in the New Year, we want to remember all the wonderful things that happened in 2017. The good and the bad. We can learn so much from looking to the past. This is a great time to share your wisdom with your child.

It may still be winter holiday season, but pretty soon it will be another favorite season - "Oscar season". The final 2017 movie releases will be out within the next two weeks and then award season will begin in earnest.